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From: ASSM Moderation <story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
Subject: [admin] Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequently Asked Questions about Alt.sex.stories.moderated (assm)
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The questions:
1. [1]How can I participate in assm?
2. [2]What is acceptible in assm?
3. [3]Where can I get an anonymous address?
4. [4]Where are the stories archived?
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The questions and answers:
1. How can I participate in assm?
If all is working well at your site, then just posting normally
will cause the newsserver to forward the article to me for
approval. If things are not working well any of several things
could happen.
your post appears on the group immediately
Your site doesn't properly handle moderated newsgroups.
Contact your system or news administrator.
you get a a bounce from tdr.com
Your site has an out of date INN moderators file. Contact
your system or news administrator.
you get a bounce from UUnet
Something odd is wrong. Send [5]me mail.
any other bounce
Dunno. Probably something weird with mail somewhere. Try
sending it again.
At this point let's assume that the artile made it to me. I will
do one of three things with it.
i. Approve and post it.
ii. Reject it and send mail saying why.
iii. Determine it to have an invalid return address and reject it
without an email explanation. Spam falls into this category.
Once I have injected it into the news system, it will take some
time to propagate back to your host and other hosts. If you don't
see the post at your site or at either of [6]DejaNews or
[7]AltaVista within a few days [8]contact me. Assm doesn't have
very good propagatation yet, but I am working on that by sending
regular newgroup messages.
If it is easier for you (as might be with an anonymous remailer)
you can bypass your local newsserver when submitting things for
approval by sending the article to
<story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us> directly.
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2. What is acceptible in assm?
_From my original policy announcement:_
A. Stories only. No requests for stories, no ancedotes. No ads
or web page announcements, etc. Basically the same material
as [9]rec.arts.erotica.
B. Valid email address of submitters. It can be through a
anonymous remailer, so long as it can be replied to get to
the submitter.
C. No HTML, MIME, or other unreadible junk; no poorly formatted
posts. (eg lines over 80 chars, whatever).
D. All postings must be free for non-commercial distribution and
archiving. Ie, no copyright notices that say "Do not
archive." It is fine to say "You may not sell this story"
however.
Main differences between my rules and the rules of
rec.arts.erotica:
A. I am not going to be reviewing stories. I do reserve the
right to post other peoples reviews (eg Celeste) if presented
to me.
B. No restrictions on violence, spelling, or grammar.
C. Reposts allowed.
D. Submitter need not be author.
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3. Where can I get an anonymous address?
There are at least two services which offer web-only based
replyable anonymization. There are also at least two others which
can do it by email.
I. [10]www.POBoxes.com gives users free mailboxes which can hide
their real address.
II. [11]www.Mailmasher.com does as well, but at the time of this
writing they are "temporarily" not accepting new accounts.
III. [12]www.Nymserver.com offers free and commercial anonymous
remailing. It does not seem to support direct posting to
newsgroups. It can be operated entirely by email
([13]help@anon.nymserver.com).
IV. [14]www.EDTec.com has a commercial anonymous remailer. At the
time of this writing they apparently do not allow anonymous
posting to moderated newsgroups, I have contacted them
reguarding this. It can be operated entirely by email
([15]infos.an@edtec.com).
The newsgroups [16]alt.anonymous and [17]alt.privacy.anon-server
are good places to find out about other services.
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4. Where are the stories archived?
I haven't gotten around to making everything look nice yet, but
you can get them at
<URL:[18]http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/>. The collection
there is actually downright awkward now, but I hope to fix that in
the not too distant future.
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[19]Still have questions?
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[20]Back to the index. This page and archive maintainted by
[21]Benjamin Elijah Griffin.
References
1. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/faq.html#howto
2. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/faq.html#policy
3. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/faq.html#anon
4. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/faq.html#archive
5. mailto:story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us
6. http://www.dejanews.com/
7. http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=news
8. mailto:story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us
9. news:rec.arts.erotica
10. http://www.poboxes.com/
11. http://www.mailmasher.com/
12. http://www.nymserver.com/
13. mailto:help@anon.nymserver.com
14. http://www.edtec.com/anon.html
15. mailto:infos.an@edtec.com
16. news:alt.anonymous
17. news:alt.privacy.anon-server
18. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/assm/
19. mailto:story-faq@qz.little-neck.ny.us
20. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/erotica/index.html
21. http://www.netusa.net/~eli/index.html
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